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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Matthew 8:2

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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8:2 Leprosy refers to various skin diseases. Lepers were ceremonially unclean; they were excluded from society unless they became symptom-free and a priest pronounced them clean (see 8:4; Lev 14:2-32). On some occasions, leprosy was a judgment from God (Num 12:9-15; 2 Kgs 5:27; 15:5).
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